Brownie is the name of a long-running
popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. The
Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the
snapshot. The first Brownie, introduced in February 1900, was a very basic
cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2¼-inch square
pictures on 117 rollfilm.
Brownies were extensively marketed to
children, with Kodak using them to popularise photography. They were also taken
to war by soldiers. Because they were so ubiquitous, many iconic shots were
taken on brownies.
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